Web Protection: Youtube and blocking specific categories

Coming from another vendor one of the features I like/had was that I could block categories within YouTube. We are a School District that needs to access YouTube (YouTube for Education has limited content). It would be nice to setup a policy or rule to be able to block these YouTube Categories.

Currently available categories are:
• Film
• Autos
• Music
• Animals
• Sports
• Shortmov
• Travel
• Games
• Videoblog
• People
• Comedy
• Entertainment
• News
• Howto
• Education
• Tech
• Nonprofit
• Movies
• Moviesanimeanimation
• Moviesactionadventure
• Moviesclassics
• Moviescomedy
• Moviesdocumentary
• Moviesdrama
• Moviesfamily
• Moviesforeign
• Movieshorror
• Moviesscififantasy
• Moviesthriller
• Moviesshorts
• Shows
• Trailers

There could be another rule that if its not categorised then it blocks it or select an option to warn or allow.

Also perhaps the ability to change a video category like you can with domains?

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#YouTubeCategoryList

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Anonymous commented · February 8, 2018 10:34 PM · Flag as inappropriate

SEría excelente a nivel empresarial, poder bloquear a TI, categorias de musica, Deporte cuando deben de ver es Educación.

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Norman Hastings commented · January 10, 2018 10:29 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Interesting! Thanks! I recommend you a tool - https://kparser.com/youtube-video-ideas/ - with which you can see all youtube tags and filter tags by categories.

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Kevin H commented · August 3, 2017 1:36 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Great idea

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Michael Marohn commented · March 15, 2017 1:53 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This would be beneficial for our organization.

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Moe commented · September 15, 2015 5:45 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I would love to see this. This would be perfect for kids using the computer to view child appropriate material on YouTube.

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Bob Alfson commented · July 11, 2014 12:01 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Interesting idea. I know every school of any size would appreciate this capability.

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